i am confused......i was gonna pull a trailer the other day so i bought an adapter from walmart for it.....plugs into the stock plug on the rango and then gives me a 4 prong output for regular trailer lights....well, when i plugged it in, no light worked......is maybe the plug wrong, or is there a fuse or sumthing for the lights that maybe i dont know about????
any help would be appreciated
thanks

 

anyone???

 

You have a trailer light fuse. I believe it is under the hood. Or possibly on the drivers side interior. Try there first. Then you can also get a test light and go directly to the outlet plug and test for output. You also might have rust inside the receptical that might be blowing a fuse or grounding it out but not blowing your fuse.

 

Highly recommend the test light or meter. That would be the best way to make sure the truck is fine. Your problem could very well be on the trailer side.

 

no the problem has to be on the truck side...my friend brought the trailer over to my house and the lights were working from his truck....then we hooked it up to mine and there was nothing...
i looked on the side of the dash and didne see any fuse so im gonna look under the hood later
i have had this truck for about a year and a half and never used the lights before, so i dont know if they even worked in the first place

thanks guys

 

Done this. Get a cheap test light and start from the back and go forward. After you determined you have no power at the recepticle get under the spare and on the drivers side you should see a harness that splits towards the driver side rear taillight. Test the wires coming out of the harness to the trailer recepticle. I had a wire with no physical issue but when split open it was covered in green decay. Must have had a pin hole or brittle jacket. Also where the harness plug into the recepticle of the trailer hitch, this area gets caked with crap. Clean it well.

 

yeah i noticed the inside of the plug on the truck was a bit dirty....maybe i will get a chance to chek it out tomorrow or the next day
thanks again

 

It's the fuse under the hood in the fusebox near the firewall.

 

got it working
fuse was fine.....swapped relay with horn relay (though both worked) and the lights work fine
thanks guys